Talleyrand simply held up a mirror to Napoleon and let him glimpse that possibility.Make them feel elevated, lofty, spiritual, and your power over them will be limitless.

But appeal to their better selves, to a higher standard of beauty, and they will hardly notice that they have been seduced.

His method was simple: on meeting a woman, he would study her, go along with her moods, find out what was missing in her life, and provide it.

Casanova was perhaps the most successful seducer in history few women could resist him.

Ideal Lovers have an aesthetic sensibility that they apply to romance.

If no obstacles face you, you must create them.

You must be able to abandon yourself to the moment.

To play the Rake, the most obvious requirement is the ability to let yourself go, to draw a woman into the kind of purely sensual moment in which past and future lose meaning.

Give your words a lofty, spiritual, literary flavor the better to insinuate desire in your unwitting victims. The less your targets focus on what you say, and the more on how it makes them feel, the more seductive your effect.

Remember: it is the form that matters, not the content.

There is the added lure of his reputation: so many women have succumbed to him, there has to be a reason.

Unlike the normal, cautious male, the Rake is delightfully unrestrained, a slave to his love of women.

Rakes insatiably adore the opposite sex, and their desire is infectious.

Crafting the perfect seductive pose for their target.

They lure in their targets, like the sirens of Odysseus, through their image and teases.

Sirens have an abundance of sexual energy and know how to use it.

It requires creating yourself, or refining yourself, in one of the seducer categories. Successful seduction starts with who you are and the type of seductive energy you express. “Every seduction has two elements that you must analyze and understand: first, yourself and what is seductive about you and second, your target and the actions that will penetrate their defenses and create surrender.” The Seductive Character “Seducers take pleasure in performing and are not weighed down by their identity, or by some need to be themselves, or to be natural.” “What will seduce a person is the effort we expend on their behalf, showing how much we care, how much they are worth.” All that is required is that you look at the world differently, through the eyes of a seducer.” “Seduction is a game of psychology, not beauty, and it is within the grasp of any person to become a master at the game.

The concise seduction